Rice Pudge

I joined a gym!  Last night was my first night.  I registered for 3 months.  We will see if I stay at this gym or not.  The owner lives in my building.  He said he knows me and Trixie because he sees use sometimes walking together outside or in the elevators.

The gym itself is kind of nice.  Small but close to school (on my way home!).  I am the only foreigner who goes there because all of the other foreigners go to a gym behind the bus terminal.  (which I didn't like as much as this one)  Because it is so close to my school, I saw some teachers and students working out there.  Not strange but still.  The gym has a lot of treadmills, a few bikes, and ONE elliptical.  Jackpot!  Most Koreans use treadmills, with a select few using bikes.  So finding an elliptical was awesome in my small town.  There are free weights and some other weight machines, which aren't that important for me.  I only use free weights and one specific machine, so as long as a gym has that it is fine.  The elliptical is what I wanted.  

The reason I joined the gym was because I have a little rice belly.  I haven't gained any weight.  In fact I have lost weight but I still have a belly from all the rice I eat.  (Sometimes 3 times a day but at least 2 times a day)  I wanted to work on it.  My school has a gym, that teachers are supposed to have access to, without students, until 6pm.  However, the students don't listen to that and they come in right after school.  Additionally, if I want to work out during the day (say when I get here in the morning), I can only shower in the student shower in the main building.  It is a one room shower, so nobody else can use it with me but it is still awkward to think about.  Better to get a membership and shell out some cash to feel a little more comfortable.

For now I am only going to go three days a week but I hope to get up to five days a week.  I will do cardio and weights for those three days and hopefully work up to cardio everyday with weights every other day.  I haven't been working out regularly since I got here.  And no I do not count the badminton and yoga clubs I am apart of as workouts.  It is more fun than workouts are.  I need to get back into the rhythm of working out but I bet I will be back to normal in no time.

Wish me luck!